Patrick Elkins
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Patrick Ryan Elkins (born 1976) is an American author, performance artist, puppeteer, and songwriter.
As a musician, he has played with a number of other groups, including "Hot Meat for Young Lovers", Catch A Wave, Ever Will You Get There, Orgasmic Cookies, Video Games, Rainbow Island, Jimes, Actual Birds Mind Expansion Ensemble, (Ultimate) Catfight of the Century, Suns of the Universe, "Odd Clouds", This Must Be The Place (a Talking Heads cover band), The Sonshine Band (his grandparents' country-western outfit), Zombie Gutz, Petroleum Bloodfang, Liquid Gods, and The Melting Flux Collective.
Elkins has released several albums of music and his writings have been published in Display Magazine, "Java Travelling", Gravity Presses, the Independent Media Center, Cloudrag, and the Ypsi Mix.
Elkins' first novel Ink on Dreams Of Transient Architecture was published by Francis of Prussia in March 2007. [1]
Later that year, he travelled to Indonesia, where he created a form of shadow puppetry known as "Wayang Kucing" (trans: shadow puppet theater for/about cats). During the ten months that he spent on the island of Java, Elkins performed Wayang Kucing shows at various outdoor festivals and performance sites, including an appearance on the television program "Mimpi Malam". [2]
Upon returning to the United States, Patrick continued to frequently perform both shadow puppet shows (the U.S. debut of the Wayang Kucing series took place at the 2008 summer Shadow Art Fair) as well as marionette, rod and hand puppet shows. His continued interest in puppeteering culminated with the performance of a 24-hour puppet show (a collaboration with the Dreamland Puppet Troupe) which took place from noon on December 31 until noon on January 1. In early 2009, the Wayang Kucing soundtrack is scheduled to be released by "Sleepy Mammal Sound" in Chicago. [3]
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[edit] Personal
Raised in and near Grand Rapids, Michigan, Elkins moved to Ypsilanti to attend Eastern Michigan University, the fourth in a series of public institutions he attended after graduating high school.
Although he dropped out of EMU in 2003 and moved to Olympia, Washington, shortly thereafter, Ypsilanti has served as Patrick's base of operations since he returned there in the spring of 2004.
In 2007 he moved to Surakarta on the island of Java with his wife, Carrie Morris, a Fulbright grantee who studied contemporary Indonesian shadow puppetry. The couple returned to Ypsilanti in 2008 and has lived there since.
[edit] Discography
- Chew Your Own Neck (Chew Your Own, 2003)
- Maximum Volume (Chew Your Own, 2004)
- Justin + Patrick w. Justin Shay (We're Twins, 2004)
- Hobo-A-Go-Go w. Justin Shay + Jason Voss (We're Twins, 2004)
- The New Folk Sounds of Patrick Elkins (We're Twins, 2005)
- Patrick Elkins [cassette] (Chew Your Own Records, 2005)
- The Bible or Africa (Ypsilanti Records [Tuesday series], 2005)
- Fruits of the Spirit (We're Twins Records, 2006)
- Chew Your Own Friends Vo. 1 w. Justin Shay (Chew Your Own, 2006)
- Live in L.A. [split cassette with Princess Xanthipe] (Chew Your Own, 2006)
- Mix 96 [split cassette with Princess Xanthipe] (Chew Your Own, 2006)
- Ink on Dreams of Transient Architecture (Francis of Prussia, 2007)
- Beating Heart of a Crew (Chew Your Own, 2007)
[edit] Publications
- Ink on Dreams of Transient Architecture (Francis of Prussia, 2007)
[edit] External links
- Interview with Patrick Elkins from Chief Magazine
